53 pages 1 hour read

Jodi Picoult

Leaving Time

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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Character Analysis

Jenna Metcalf

Jenna is a 13-year-old girl determined to find her missing mother. She has red hair, green eyes, and does not take no for an answer. She wants to investigate her mother’s disappearance, all the while dreading the possibility that her mother deliberately abandoned her. Jenna is on a mission to achieve closure. When she is repeatedly rebuffed by the people she needs to enlist for help in her search, she redoubles her efforts. 

Serenity Jones

Serenity is flamboyant and dyes her hair cotton-candy pink. She has a natural psychic gift that she has parlayed into a successful career as a media star. After a disastrous wrong prediction for a US senator, her spirit guides desert her, and her career is washed up. When Jenna comes knocking on her door, it takes several tries before Serenity grudgingly agrees to help.

Virgil Stanhope

Virgil is a borderline alcoholic who wears his thinning hair in a buzz cut because he thinks it makes him look tough. Virgil is the investigator on the case that leaves one woman dead and another injured at the elephant sanctuary. He drives Jenna’s mother to the hospital right before her disappearance.

Virgil has always blamed himself for not pursuing the case as a murder investigation rather than an accidental death caused by one of the

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